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Jake’s Boost, a health food start-up based in Cambridge and recent graduate of the Cambridge Social Venture and Accelerate Cambridge Programmes, is hosting a bloggers event at The Signal Box Community Centre on Friday at 6.30pm.

“The start-up scene, especially in food and drink, is very crowded, so you have to go the extra mile when it comes to winning new fans, ambassadors and eventually customers. They appreciate the extra effort a brand makes to get to know them and the more relaxed atmosphere of an intimate networking event like this is hard to beat when you try to connect with people,” says Jake’s Boost co-founder Ansje Germann.

The event will kick off with a free Zumba class, followed by a talk by the Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub before the networking and product sampling starts. Entry is free and tickets can be booked on Eventbrite.

Jake’s Boost co-founder Dan Pearce adds: “We have a fun and informative evening planned with a range of fantastic local, sustainable, ethical and social enterprises showcasing their products. If there’s a local start-up with a great ethical product that wants to join us on the evening, please get in touch.”

This is the first in a series of events held in the run up to the launch of the start-up’s crowdfunding campaign launch on June 1 on the social crowdfunding platform UpEffect.

Launched in 2015, Jake’s Boost, a producer of 100% natural additive free nut and seed butters, gives five per cent of profits to UK child food poverty charities, including Make Lunch. Their financial aid helps feed children in need, supports training for new volunteers and openings of new kitchens throughout the country.

Jake’s Boost nut and seed butters come in three blends, Super Boost, which has 10 different nuts and seeds; TigerBoost is a blend of cashews, brazils, sunflower seeds, tiger nuts and coconut; Cacao Boost mixes peanuts, chia and cacao nibs.

As well as jars, the butters come in snack pots. A handful of dried fruit, including banana chips, apple and orange slices, are matched to each butter.

Previously in television producing and visual effects, founders Ansje Germann and Dan Pearce were bored with the nut butters available and felt there was room for new blends that contained a wider range of nuts and seeds. They want to give back too. The mission is for Jake’s Boost to become a multi-social enterprise that offers socially conscious consumers a range of lifestyle products that support individual ethical causes.

The company is looking to expand through new investment. Their crowdfunding campaign will be aiming to raise £10.000. The funds will be used to produce large test batches, develop more convenient and environmentally friendly packaging for the snack pots and invest in a marketing campaign.

Ansje Germann, co-founder of Jake’s Boost, said: “Despite the huge variety of nuts and seeds out there, the nut and seed spread options are still limited in flavours. We’re excited to offer consumers new alternatives that vary in flavour, nutrients and texture – not just smooth and crunchy but something in between – without the additives, sugar and salt. We’re doing it with a conscience too. We want to take child poverty head on by creating quality-driven, desirable products that enable people to feel good by doing good.”